Use of Regards in email

Email is a medium to convey your messages and build a relationship with the people. So email should be like you are speaking to him/her not as our syllabus text book.

When you meet someone you end your conversation with goodbye. Should it not be applicable with email also? I believe it not should be but must.

With goodbye your conversation seems abrupt, so mail too. The sign-off is the last part of any mail that recipient read. So last part should be interesting and motivating.

 So take some extra time to think how to end your email. Sign off should not be traditional, it should be according to the situation and your relation with the recipients.

Few Sign-off and their uses :

1. Regards - It is most common and simple sign off. Generally used for formal mail.

2. Best Regards - It is used when you have a new relationship with the recipients.

3. Kind Regards - If the recipients of mail is woman it is advisable to use Kind Regards.

4. Best - Short form of 'Best Regards, you can an alternate too.

5. Sincerely - Use it when you are trying to make understand the recipient that you will not take undue advantage his leniency. OR you are trying to convince some to believe you.

6. Best Wishes - When you are well-wisher of recipients but not too close. And the sitiauon is like are not hearing this person in while.

7. Take Care - When you are well-wisher of recipient, just like Best Wishes but you are closer to recipient.

8. Thanks - When you really want to say thanks to recipients.

Finger Math: 9X Rule

To multiply by 9,try this:

(1) Spread your two hands out and place them on a desk or table in front of you.
(2) To multiply by 3, fold down the 3rd finger from the left. To multiply by 4, it would be the 4th finger and so on.
(3) the answer is 27 ... READ it from the two fingers on the left of the folded down finger and the 7 fingers on the right of it.

This works for anything up to 9x10!

Swadesh

This one is from the 2004 movie, Swades.


Setting: Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan) goes to the commencement of the primary school in the village. After the ceremony gets over, the people of the village ask Mohan to share his experience of living in America. Mohan tells them about the infrastructure and amenities provided by the government.Suddenly Munishwar (a member of the village panchayat) says that India has something which makes it a better nation than America - its culture and traditions. To this Mohan replies,


Main nahi maanta ki humaara desh duniya ka sabse mahaon desh hai, lekin yeh zarror maanta hun ki hum mein kaabiliyat hai apne desh ko mahaan banane ki. Yeh dono desh ek doosre se har pehloo, har roop mein ek-doosre se alag hain... Jab bhi hum mukaable mein dabne lagte hain toh hum ek hi cheez ka aadhar lete hain - sanskaar, parampara. America ne apne bal-boote pe tarakki ki hai aur unke apne sanskaar hain, apni parampara hai. Ab yeh kehna ki unke soch-vichaar, unka rehan-sehan, unki manyataayein kharaab hain aur humaari mahaan, yeh galat hai.


(Translation: I don't agree that ours is the greatest country in the world, but I do believe that we have the potential and the strength to make it the greatest country in the world. Both these countries are very different from each other in every aspect... Whenever we suspect losing in a competition, we clutch onto our only refuge - our culture and traditions. America has progressed on its own strengths, and they have their own culture and own traditions. It would be wrong to claim that their culture, their traditions, their lifestyle and beliefs are inferior to ours.)


This dialogue gives a reality check to everyone who has been clinging onto our greatness from centuries ago, instead of working towards the betterment of the nation, and also ridiculing the western culture just because it is different from ours.